Keyboard shortcuts for the Portman2 library grid: move around, select,
star, tag, file into albums, rotate and delete photos without touching
the mouse.
Verbs act on the selection whenever there is one — even if the
cursor is somewhere else — and on the highlighted image when nothing
is selected. The same rule the right-click menu uses.
Hovering a tile shows its selection circle; click it to select
(Shift+Click selects a range). While anything is selected, every
tile shows its circle and the top bar shows a count with a clear
button.
Anything you delete, hide, tag or rotate can be put back with
Ctrl+Z, or from the Undo button on the toast. Deleting from disk is
the exception: it holds off for ten seconds, and the toast can call it
off during that time — afterwards there is nothing to undo.
Moving around
| Key |
Action |
← → ↑ ↓ |
Move the cursor (hold to repeat) |
PageUp / PageDown |
Move by one screen of rows |
Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→ |
First / last item in the current row |
Ctrl+↑ / Ctrl+↓ |
First / last item in the current column |
Home / End |
First / last item in this view |
Opening and closing
| Key |
Action |
Space / Enter |
Open the highlighted image |
Ctrl+Enter |
Open this image in its own window |
Selecting
| Key |
Action |
Ctrl+Space |
Select / deselect this image |
Shift+Space |
Select everything from the last selected to here |
Ctrl+A |
Select everything in this view (not available in All images / Photos / Videos) |
Ctrl+Shift+A, Esc |
Clear the selection |
Y, numpad * |
Invert the selection within this view |
Acting on photos
| Key |
Action |
H |
Hide. While hidden photos are shown, this toggles the badge and leaves the photo where it is; otherwise it leaves the view |
S / Shift+S |
Star / unstar |
R / Shift+R |
Rotate clockwise / counter-clockwise (photos only) |
T |
Tag — pick an existing tag or create one |
L |
Add to album — pick an existing album or create one |
Shift+L |
Remove from this album (only inside an album view) |
U |
Restore from the trash |
E |
Reveal in Explorer (one image at a time) |
Ctrl+E |
Edit — opens the edit view. From the grid that is the whole selection, every tile previewing live; from the viewer, the one photo on screen |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Find similar photos — switches the grid to everything that looks like this image; with several selected, more like these, by the same kind of scene |
Ctrl+C |
Copy the files themselves — paste them into Explorer or an email |
Ctrl+V |
Paste — add the images on the clipboard to this album (album views only) |
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Copy edits — take this photo's look, without its crop, to paste onto others |
Ctrl+Shift+V |
Paste edits — give the copied look to the selection, or in the viewer to the photo on screen; each keeps its own crop, and one Ctrl+Z puts them all back |
Alt+Enter |
Open the context menu for the current target |
Ctrl+Z |
Undo the last action (the last 10 are remembered) |
Deleting
| Key |
Action |
Del |
Move to the trash, with a confirmation |
Ctrl+Del |
Move to the trash without confirming — inside the Trash view, delete forever with a confirmation |
Shift+Del |
Delete from disk forever, with a confirmation |
Ctrl+Shift+Del |
Delete from disk forever without confirming — a toast counts down for 10 seconds and can still cancel it |
Album slots
| Key |
Action |
1 … 0 |
ADD to album slot 1–10 — never removes; already there says so |
Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+0 |
The same, and an empty slot asks which album to put in it (hold Ctrl to see the slots) |
Shift+1 … Shift+0 |
REMOVE from album slot 1–10 — explicit, because a digit never takes anything out. Top-row digits only: Windows turns Shift+Numpad into the navigation keys before the app sees it |
Playing
| Key |
Action |
Ctrl+Shift+S |
Play this view as a slideshow — the selection when there is one, starting at the highlighted image |
Windows and dialogs
| Key |
Action |
Ctrl+I |
Open the Import dialog |
Ctrl+, |
Open Settings |
Searching
| Key |
Action |
Ctrl+F |
Search: narrow this grid by date, tag, album, file name or keyword |